Seeing the Big Picture: The Role that Undergraduate Work Experiences Can Play in the Persistence of Female Engineering Undergraduates

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作者：

Samuelson, Cate ^{[1
,2
]}

Litzler, Elizabeth ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Washington, Educ & Leadership Policy Studies, Seattle, WA 98195 USA

[2] Univ Washington, CWD, Seattle, WA 98195 USA

[3] Univ Washington, CWD, Res, Seattle, WA 98195 USA

来源：

2013 ASEE ANNUAL CONFERENCE | 2013年

关键词：

WOMEN; COLOR;

D O I：

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中图分类号：

G40 [教育学];

学科分类号：

040101 ; 120403 ;

摘要：

Internships and co-ops provide a variety of benefits to students who participate in them. This study describes the benefits that are accrued by female undergraduate engineering students who participate in internships and co-ops. The paper describes how internships and co-ops can enhance students' learning, connect students with professionals in the industry and provide a taste of the future, all of which contribute to female students' professional role and career-fit confidence. All of these benefits ultimately influence female students' decisions to persist to graduation and pursue a career in engineering. The paper also describes how internship and coop experiences affected the education timelines of females who switched out of engineering into a different major.

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